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The leak - possibly caused by a micro-meteorite strike - was detected on Wednesday night, resulting in a small loss of cabin pressure. It was found in the most recent Soyuz capsule, which is one of two docked at the space station and is home to three Americans, two Russians and a German. Consulte Mais Informação

While Hawaii was spared from a direct hit from Hurricane Lane, which was downgraded to a tropical storm over the weekend, some areas were slammed with torrential rain. On Sunday, state Sen. The whole of Hawaii was on a flash-flood watch for the duration of Lane, and schools across the state were shut on Thursday and Friday in anticipation of the storm, the Inquisitr previously reported. Consulte Mais Informação

The spacecraft accomplished that feat on August 16, sending a series of 48 images back to Earth. The New Horizons spacecraft is on its way to a distant solar system object and has spotted its destination - on its first try and from more than 100 million miles (170 million kilometers) away. Consulte Mais Informação

They can climb near verticle mountains to reach salt at the summit that they love to snack on, and are said to be among the cleverest of animals . When shown the photos from a distance of four yards, the goats generally made straight for the happy image, exploring it curiously with their snouts. Consulte Mais Informação

The office said in a statement obtained by the news agency that the turtles had been dead for approximately eight days before they were discovered by local residents near Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, and their bodies were badly decomposed. The government's special prosecutorial office for crimes against the environment (PROFEPA) and other agencies are working to find those responsible for the incident. Consulte Mais Informação

A version of a NASA model called the Goddard Earth Observing System Forward Processing (GEOS FP) offers a similarly expansive view of the mishmash of particles that dance and swirl through the atmosphere. Like all climate models, the GEOS FP model relies on mathematical equations that represent physical processes to calculate the level of aerosols in our atmosphere at any given time. Consulte Mais Informação

Changes come Wednesday with a strong cold front. We'll have two days of this summer heat and likely add to our tally of 14 days of 90 or above for the year. Heat-index forecast for Tuesday afternoon. Overnight temperatures will remain in the low 20s, providing little relief from the heat. 'Special Weather Statements for heat are also in effect across portions of the Ohio Valley. Consulte Mais Informação

Goats can distinguish smiling human faces from frowning ones on photos, and actively seek out snapshots of happier individuals, a study said Wednesday. Instead, it seems, animals domesticated for food production, such as goats, can also decipher human facial cues. The study of emotion perception has already revealed complex capabilities in dogs and horses, says co-author Natalia Albuquerque, from the University of Sao Paulo. Consulte Mais Informação

They're transformed into bottom quarks , they announced today. The hypothesis of the Standard Model is that the quantum field of the Higgs Boson particle gives mass to the bottom quark and other fundamental particles. And that's just the start. "Since the first single-experiment observation of the Higgs boson decay to tau-leptons one year ago, CMS, along with our colleagues in ATLAS, has observed the coupling of the Higgs boson to the heaviest fermions: the tau, the top quark , and ... Consulte Mais Informação

The assessment also will determine whether the defendant presents a "low", "medium" or "high" risk to the public. The California bill was inspired in part by a San Francisco teenager who struggled with more than 50 seizure a day. SB 10 is only one leg of the long journey toward perfecting our justice system, but it is an important one, ' said Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon. While other states such as New Jersey and Kentucky have greatly reduced their reliance on bail, California is the ... Consulte Mais Informação

On Monday, Vietnam Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh wrote in a condolence book at the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, "It was he who took the lead in significantly healing the wounds of war, and normalizing and promoting the comprehensive Vietnam-U.S. Consulte Mais Informação

NASA spokeswoman Brandi Dean said Kulin's departure is effective from Friday and that he is leaving for personal reasons that the space agency can not discuss due to privacy laws. The last time astronauts-in-training resigned from NASA was in 1968. Kulin (second from right) was one of 12 new astronauts chosen in 2017 from a record 18,300 applicants. Consulte Mais Informação

Morrison, however, suggested that returning home affairs minister Peter Dutton, who also resigned from his ministry last week after his first failed tilt at the prime ministership, would be charged with the country's cybersecurity. After five years in the role Bishop has now told new Prime Minister Scott Morrison that she no longer wants the job. For more than 10 years, the West Australian lawyer with the killer stare and snappy suits was the Liberal Party's second in command. Consulte Mais Informação

Border Force officers are hunting for a group of suspected asylum seekers after an abandoned boat was found in crocodile country north of Cairns. "I understand that 15 people are now detained on behalf of the Australian Border Force", Queensland police minister, Mark Ryan, told reporters on Monday. Consulte Mais Informação

The Medical Examiner's Office confirmed the ages of the other two victims, both of whom were from San Diego, on Friday. He was driving it in the wrong direction when it hit the SUV on Thursday, killing himself as well as a 43-year-old woman and her 12-year-old daughter. Consulte Mais Informação

The Aeolus mission - named after a character of Greek mythology who was appointed keeper of the winds - is scheduled to blast off from Europe's space port in Kourou, French Guiana, on board a Vega rocket at 2120 GMT (6.20 pm local time) on Wednesday. Consulte Mais Informação

But, as the astronauts were hitting the tennis ball in microgravity over a makeshift net, they themselves floated around. They were lucky because clouds are so common in the area, NASA says, images of the region are not often acquired from the space station. Consulte Mais Informação

Species with a narrowly confined range were far more likely to go extinct if they had a high metabolic rate . Scientists came to the conclusion that the biggest winners in the evolutionary race may not be the fittest, and the most "lazy" animals and plants, characterized by extremely low metabolic rate. Consulte Mais Informação

In the end, after thoroughly examining this ancient turtle with no shell, the scientists placed the creature on an evolutionary line that led to the appearance of turtles as we know them today. Eventually, the genetic mutations for a beak and a shell happened in the same turtle. "This impressively large fossil is a very exciting discovery giving us another piece in the puzzle of turtle evolution", Nick Fraser, another study author from the National Museums Scotland, explains . Consulte Mais Informação

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